TEC21

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TEC21
TEC21 Logo.png
description Trade journal for architecture and construction
publishing company Espazium, Zurich
Headquarters Zurich
First edition January 6, 1883 (as Schweizerische Bauzeitung )
Frequency of publication 40 times a year
Sold edition 12,639 (previous year 11,398) copies
( WEMF circulation bulletin 2018)
Widespread edition 12,931 (previous year 11,428) copies
(WEMF circulation bulletin 2018)
Editor-in-chief Judit Solt
Web link www.espazium.ch/tec21
ISSN 0036-7524

TEC21 (colloquially Bauzeitung ) is the oldest technical trade journal in Switzerland. It documents the technical progress in its specialist areas and the important buildings from the competition to completion.

history

The railroad (1874–1882)

Since 1874, reported The railroad in Orell-Füssli-Verlag week after week on all technical and economic aspects of the emerging rail transport. Since 1876 it was also the organ of the Society of Former Polytechnicians ( GEP for short , today Alumni ETH ) and the Swiss Association of Engineers and Architects (SIA). In 1880 the engineer and publicist August Waldner (born July 3, 1844 in Basel ; † June 29, 1906 in Cannes ) took over the editorial office and bought Orell Füssli Die Eisenbahn in 1882.

Schweizerische Bauzeitung (1883–1978)

The first issue of the Schweizerische Bauzeitung appeared on January 6, 1883 . Rail transport continued to be an important topic in the Soviet Zone, but the paper, soon known as the construction newspaper, also documented almost all of the technical achievements and architectural trends: bridges, tunnels and roads, river corrections and water supplies, buildings and systems for the use of hydropower, including the innovative services of the Swiss machine industry, but also topics such as the organization of the telephone service. The thematic breadth did not stop at national borders either, domestic and foreign buildings were presented. Not to forget the «competitions», which even today make it possible to trace the origins of large public buildings all over the world. Almost all known Swiss architects and engineers of the first half of the 20th century are immortalized in the Bauzeitung as authors or correspondents.

Before the turn of the century, Waldner's college friend August Jegher (born September 7, 1843 in Trieste , † February 13, 1924 in Zurich ) joined the editorial team. After Waldner's death in 1906, Jegher published the Bauzeitung , shortly afterwards his son Carl Jegher (born May 29, 1874 in Budapest ; † July 14, 1945 in Zurich) also became an editor and publisher. In 1931 his son Werner Jegher embarked on the same career. In 1945 he was reinforced by Adolf Ostertag (born March 6, 1895 in Winterthur ; † August 22, 1979), who was co-owner of the magazine from 1948. In 1966, the SIA bought the Bauzeitung and, together with GEP, the Federation of Swiss Architects (BSA), the Swiss Association of Consulting Engineering Companies (USIC) and the Association of Graduates from the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), founded the publishing house for academic technical associations. From 1973 the publishing company also published the French-language magazine Bulletin technique de la Suisse romande , which had been founded in 1875 and until 1899 was called Bulletin de la Société vaudoise des ingénieurs et des architectes .

Swiss engineer and architect (1979–2000)

In 1979 the two magazines were renamed Schweizer Ingenieur und Architekt and Ingénieurs et architectes suisses . This has met the request of the SIA association members who could not identify with the word "construction" in their name.

TEC21 (from 2001)

At the end of 2000, the “SIA booklet”, as the Bauzeitung was often called, became TEC21 . In 2001 the French newspaper was renamed Tracés .

The digitization of the entire inventory of the two magazines was completed in 2007 and can be accessed online under the label “ Baugedächtnis Schweiz” . This service was made possible through the collaboration of the ETH Library Zurich , the publishing company of the academic technical associations, the Swiss Association of Engineers and Architects and the consortium of Swiss university libraries .

literature

  • Richard Liechti: A new dress, a new face, a new name - and a look back . In: TEC21 . tape 118 , no. 44 , 2000, pp. 7-14 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-79998 ( online [accessed September 18, 2015]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WEMF circulation bulletin 2018 , p. 62 (PDF; 796 kB).